Warmer weather should help the crawfish crop.

Written by

Lynda Edwards
Louisiana Gannett

Cold weather causes crawfish to act like couch potatoes, lying around in mud, too lazy to move toward the yummy bait in a trap a few inches from their heads. January's deep freeze meant Minville could fill less than 10 percent of his Super Bowl weekend orders from Acadians craving crawfish as a party treat.

"I could have been a crawfish auctioneer and sold buckets to the highest bidder Super Bowl weekend because there were so few we could get our hands on," joked Minvielle, who is the Louisiana ...